Rates and Properties of Type Ia Supernovae as a Function of Mass and Star Formation in Their Host Galaxies

By M. Sullivan, D. L. Borgne, C. Pritchet, A. Hodsman, J. Neill, D. Howell, R. Carlberg, P. Astier, E. Aubourg, D. Balam and 20 more. 2006

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We show that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are formed within both very young and old stellar populations, with observed rates that depend on the stellar mass and mean star formation rates (SFRs) of their host galaxies. Models in which the SN Ia rate depends solely on host galaxy stellar mass are ruled out with >99% confidence. Our analysis is based on 100 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia, plus 24 photometrically classified events, all from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) and distributed over 0.2 < z < 0.75. We estimate stellar masses and SFRs for the SN Ia host galaxies by fitting their broadband spectral energy distributions with the galaxy spectral synthesis code PÉGASE.2. We show that the SN Ia rate per unit mass is proportional to the specific SFR of the parent galaxies—more vigorously star-forming galaxies host more SNe Ia per unit stellar mass, broadly equivalent to the trend of increasing SN Ia rate in later type galaxies seen in the local universe. Following earlier suggestions for a simple "two-component" model approximating the SN Ia rate, we find bivariate linear dependencies of the SN Ia rate on both the stellar masses and the mean SFRs of the host systems. We find that the SN Ia rate can be well represented as the sum of 5.3 ± 1.1 × 10-14 SNe yr-1 M☉-1 and 3.9 ± 0.7 × 10-4 SNe yr-1 (M☉ yr-1)-1 of star formation. We also demonstrate a dependence of distant SN Ia light-curve shapes on star formation in the host galaxy, similar to trends observed locally. Passive galaxies, with no star formation, preferentially host faster declining/dimmer SNe Ia, while brighter events are found in systems with ongoing star formation.

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• RATES AND DELAY TIMES OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE (2009, background): “Sullivan et al. (2006) found that the SN Ia rate per unit mass increases as a function of star formation activity, a trend which coincides with the results of Calura & Matteucci (2006), who used chemical evolution models to derive the rate of SNe Ia as a function of galaxy Hubble type.”
• Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets (2008, methodology): “According to recent evidence (Sullivan et al. 2006) these two samples might be dominated by different progenitor systems (Scannapieco & Bildsten 2005; Mannucci et al. 2006), which are likely to show different evolutions.”
• The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey (2014, methodology): “We instead use a technique that accounts for the probability based on the local surface brightness similar to that used in Sullivan et al. (2006).”
• Gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae in future wide-field optical imaging surveys (2010, background): “…sometimes been assumed that SNe Ia are drawn from two populations, ‘prompt’ (tracing star formation rates) and ‘old’ (tracing stellar masses of host galaxies) SNe (Mannucci et al. 2005; Scannapieco & Bildsten 2005; Mannucci, Della Valle & Panagia 2006; Sullivan et al. 2006b; Aubourg et al. 2008).”
• THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE CLUSTER SUPERNOVA SURVEY. V. IMPROVING THE DARK-ENERGY CONSTRAINTS ABOVE z > 1 AND BUILDING AN EARLY-TYPE-HOSTED SUPERNOVA SAMPLE (2011, background): “SNe Ia in early-type host galaxies follow a narrower distribution than SNe Ia in late-type galaxies (Hamuy et al. 1996, 2000; Riess et al. 1999; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• Delay Time Distribution Measurement of Type Ia Supernovae by the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey and Implications for the Progenitor (2008, positive): “However, we selected SNe Ia in galaxies with old stellar population, and a systematic trend that SNe Ia in old stellar population are fainter than those in star forming galaxies by a peak magnitude difference of ∆MB ∼ 0.3 has been known (Gallagher et al. 2005; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE GALAXIES HOSTING SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (2013, background): “…Type Ia supernovae (SNe) originate in both star-forming and elliptical galaxies (Oemler & Tinsley 1979; van den Bergh et al. 2005; Mannucci et al. 2005; Li et al. 2011) consistent with an evolved progenitor and an event rate that traces both stellar mass and star formation (Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• The delay-time distribution of Type Ia supernovae from Sloan II (2012, background): “Mannucci et al. (2005), Mannucci, Della Valle & Panagia (2006) and Sullivan et al. (2006), analysing SN Ia rates as a function of galaxy colours, made the first direct estimates of SN Ia delay times, finding evidence for a range of delay times, with both ‘prompt’ SNe Ia that explode within hundreds…”
• MUFASA: Galaxy Formation Simulations With Meshless Hydrodynamics (2016, background): “The rates are taken from Sullivan et al. (2006), namely 3.9 × 10−4 SNIa (M /yr)−1 for the prompt component, and 5.3× 10−14 SNIa M−1 for the delayed component (see Oppenheimer & Davé 2008, for further details).”
• Observational Clues to the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae (2013, methodology): “A similar SN Ia rate dependence on host color and specific SFR was found by Sullivan et al. (2006) for the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) sample of SNe Ia, and more recently by Li et al. (2011b) for the Lick Observatory SN survey (LOSS) sample (Leaman et al. 2011, Li et al. 2011c), , and by Smith…”
• The dependence of Type Ia Supernovae luminosities on their host galaxies (2010, background): “SNe Ia are more than an order of magnitude more common (per unit stellar mass) in actively star-forming or morphologically late-type galaxies than in passive or elliptical systems (Mannucci et al. 2005; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• Post common envelope binaries from SDSS - XI. The white dwarf mass distributions of CVs and pre-CVs (2011, background): “…2010, and references therein) indicate the existence of two populations of SNe Ia, a prompt channel that leads to explosions in 100 − 500Myr and a delayed population that produces SNe Ia on much longer timescales (∼ 5Gyr, Mannucci et al. 2006; Scannapieco & Bildsten 2005; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• Faint Thermonuclear Supernovae from AM Canum Venaticorum Binaries (2007, background): “If every AM CVn gives a visibly explosive last flash, this would give 1 event every 5000-15000 years in a 1011M⊙ E/S0 galaxy, 2− 6% of the Type Ia SN rate in E/SO galaxies (Mannucci et al. 2005; Scannapieco & Bildsten 2005; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• THE SUPERNOVA DELAY TIME DISTRIBUTION IN GALAXY CLUSTERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TYPE-Ia PROGENITORS AND METAL ENRICHMENT (2010, background): “…a proportionality between star-formation rate (SFR) and SN Ia rate per unit stellar mass in star forming galaxies, and on the other hand, a non-zero SN Ia rate in early-type galaxies with no current star formation (Mannucci et al. 2005, 2006; Scannapieco & Bildsten 2005; Sullivan et al. 2006).”
• Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (2013, background): “…hosts of Type Ia supernovae since these white dwarf thermonuclear explosions are known to arise from an evolved stellar population, with a broad range of delay times (Mannucci, Della Valle & Panagia 2006; Sullivan et al. 2006; Maoz et al. 2011), potentially similar to compact object binary mergers.”
• Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search – III. The rate–size relation, and the rates as a function of galaxy Hubble type and colour (2010, background): “…and that the rate-size relation of the SN Ia rates in the star-forming galaxies is indeed related to the dependence of the SSFR on the galaxy mass. Sullivan et al. (2006) reported a nonlinear proportionality between the SN Ia frequency and the galaxy mass for the star-forming galaxies, with a RSS…”
• COMPREHENSIVE PHOTOMETRIC HISTORIES OF ALL KNOWN GALACTIC RECURRENT NOVAE (2009, background): “And with the possibility of two roughly equal populations of Type Ia supernovae (Sullivan et al. 2006), there might even be two dominant progenitor classes.”
• SNLS3: CONSTRAINTS ON DARK ENERGY COMBINING THE SUPERNOVA LEGACY SURVEY THREE-YEAR DATA WITH OTHER PROBES (2011, methodology): “Candidates were prioritized following the procedure outlined in Sullivan et al. (2006a).”